#waveborn

my entry for Christian Faber's and Duckbrick's Rebel Nature WaveBuilt contest:

Seafloor Geothermal Energy plant Coral Reef

"A relic from the old world, this facility was built to pump up magma to the sea floor and use the temperature difference with the surrounding ocean to generate electricity. The largely self-sufficient plant has kept on running even without maintenance but something has changed.

Over time, the warmth emanating from the magma tubes have attracted life not usually seen in this part of the ocean and the geothermal plant has now become a colorful coral reef. The once abandoned facility is now teeming with life."

I built this in Stud.io with a lot of intersecting pieces, rendered it in a few separate passes and then assembled the final image using those renders and some more drawing.

is this a meme? ◌ accepting◌ @wave-born

I made a contest entry for the Waveborn contest for Christian Faber's Rebel Nature. This is the Great Coral Crab :)

The idea is basically "What if the Great Barrier Reef was on a crab's back?"

I decided to make a digital moc because I don't have this many Lego bricks and also because Lego stuff was encouraged the most. My personal favourite thing about this the trans neon green antennae with two lime brooms on it. It just looks very elegant, don't you think?

Made in Stud.io

♪ - Lucio couldn’t remember the last time he’d come to visit a beach since he first was outfitted with his prosthetics- he’d always been afraid that getting sand in between the joints of his legs would alter their function in some drastic way. He’d never been told as such when he was given them, but he knew the Vishkar wouldn’t be willing to give him spares if he ruined this one by now. Better to be safe than sorry. Honestly, he’d never had the heart before to see the sea again without being able to get close to it for a long time. Catching some of the first waves for good luck in the summer had been one of his superstitions as a boy, and to have it be cut off from him entirely was far too painful before. 

It had almost been a year since last been here, and the view of the ocean from the sidewalk was bittersweet for him. He had missed the blue, intertwining echoes that the sea produced to match the movement of its waves, though. That alone was enough for him to not regret taking this detour. His yellow backpack fell at his feet, and he began to settle down with crossed legs on the grass. His hand hand been on the zipper to take out his notebook before he noticed something...strange within the water.

“Huh?” was that a bit of green emerging from there? Not like, the usual clumps of kelp he was used to seeing with lowering tides either. If anything, it looked vaguely humanoid from this distance. Was he going mad..? 

“Hey!” he called, rising back to his feet again, carefully treading on the bit of grass he could before it began to turn into sand. He cupped his hands around his mouth to project his voice “Is anyone out there-?” His breath caught in his throat. Whoa, this was unreal! 

“Hey, are you okay?! What happened to you?” 

     There’s a pause, as said shoulders slacken a little under the weight, a breath passing her teeth in a little gust of unrealized strain. She needs to be more careful, somebody cares-

i want to believe ○ accepting ○ @wave-born

DESPITE THE AMAZING CREATIONS THAT HANDS COULD PIECE TOGETHER - all kinds of astonishing inventions and machines - it was hands THEMSELVES that were most fascinating. FLESH in all it’s forms---a wonder.

Bodies didn’t run on mechanics ; no batteries, wires, gears - they had some kind of INNER FLAME, a ‘soul’ as pastor liked to call it. But Dox wasn’t concerned with peoples inner parts so long as the pieces WORKED. NO, he found interest in outward appearance, judging first by sight---but not in search for aesthetic promise, rather in assessment as opponent.

HOWEVER, every so often there comes some new being that STUNS him with unique form---this is one such being, a PET from the Upper-Levels, now stuck in the UC.

Their appearance is STRANGE, unlike anything he’d seen before ; sometimes images of captive pets drift down from the Upper-Level channels into the UC net, but none had ever looked like THIS.

             WHAT A SHAME, going from one cage ↓ RIGHT DOWN ↓ into another.